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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"network meta-analyses"”.
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A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Psychosocial Interventions for Adults who were Sexually Abused as Children
… of a systematic review, series of pairwise meta-analyses, moderator analyses, and network meta-analyses, investigates the comparative effectiveness of various treatments for adults who experienced sexual abuse as children.</p> <p>Over 17,000 studies were screened for pre-determined …
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Enhancing the Use of Network Meta-analysis to Synthesize Information on Benefits and Harms of Drugs to Support Regulatory and Reimbursement Decisions in Canada
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Standard meta-analysis compares two treatments whereas network meta-analysis compares multiple treatments. In light of the increasing number of treatments available, we have seen a shift from using standard meta-analysis towards using network meta-analyses to support …
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Pharmacotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: New Meta-Analytic Approaches to Synthesising the Evidence
… publication of systematic reviews and of novel meta-analytic approaches have become of interest for the use of medication in their treatment and decision making. This dissertation has three objectives 1) To update Cochrane reviews of pharmacotherapy for SAD and PTSD, 2) To conduct a qualitative …
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Overcoming Avoidable Research Waste in Carious Lesion Management Research
… move towards living reviews (LSRs) incorporating Network Meta-Analysis (NMA). <br/><br/>For future results to be meaningful for dental care providers and patients in clinical decision making, the outcomes of importance to these groups needed to be established. The central project in this thesis is …
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NETWORK META-ANALYSIS OF ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL REGENERATION PROCEDURES
… maxillofacial regeneration. Since traditional meta-analysis compares only two types of intervention, network meta-analysis has been used as most common method to compare multiple interventions from different clinical trials. Therefore, using this methodology our main aim was to determine the …